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so what i'm trying to say is to my even with all the drone technology and other technologies, i don't believe that international development will allow us the luxury of, you know, keeping the boys home. they will be unfortunately contingencies that will force us to address the question. are we defending our security outside our own borders? history shows that we need to do that in the past, and that think we will have to in the future. that is my argument that we cannot in europe simply cut defense budgets more and more and more and more without risking essential security interests of our own countries. >> the question is an interesting one because looking at our elections, i think there are a number of issues a plate. david describes certainly the position that has been advanced by the obama administration and president obama. during the foreign policy debate, in fact, there was an outright discussion about traditional means of warfare. this is some of the, you know, the newer versions. and i hesitate saying this, of course, with senator mccain because he jumped in on this, but the s
so what i'm trying to say is to my even with all the drone technology and other technologies, i don't believe that international development will allow us the luxury of, you know, keeping the boys home. they will be unfortunately contingencies that will force us to address the question. are we defending our security outside our own borders? history shows that we need to do that in the past, and that think we will have to in the future. that is my argument that we cannot in europe simply cut...
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. >> just to follow of that and the technology peace, we can be hammered with the potential of drones but can we push too far with technology 15 years of untamed osama bin laden is that possible with drones and the cia how much gets inside of a massive amount to do that? stock about notes and careers jones will not find those and a critical information was collected by active computing but by hands. how possible is it to combat terrorism if it is not fixed on a map if we don't have partners or allies are human beings on the ground then what is the point*? >> you are clearly right. when they did not a decisive enough is the reconstitution of humans by networks all over the world. the cost of those is nothing compared to five nuclear submarines to the military budget. i think we can and to maintain the collection and analysis process in our about -- military without breaking the budget. and the best way to get the most out of the military force but when we faint on those lines we don't want to toss out the jt's of having an army even though we may not have a clear example that you could
. >> just to follow of that and the technology peace, we can be hammered with the potential of drones but can we push too far with technology 15 years of untamed osama bin laden is that possible with drones and the cia how much gets inside of a massive amount to do that? stock about notes and careers jones will not find those and a critical information was collected by active computing but by hands. how possible is it to combat terrorism if it is not fixed on a map if we don't have...
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secretary, quite honestly is the lack of an overall information technology architecture you and i have talked about this before, and it still doesn't exist today as far as i know. i've pointed that out and my committee has pointed that out and outside they've looked at the va's i.t. department and have pointed that out. i'm just not convinced that five years from now given that i don't know where you will be, but my fear is that we are going to be sitting here talking about the same issue again because we are not going about it with the discipline i come from an information technology career of over 30 years. i worked at u.s. special operations command as the director of the staff i know what it takes to get this stuff done, and five years, gentleman is totally unacceptable. and i don't really have a question for you. i just want you to fix this for crying out loud. >> can i respond? congressmen coming you and i but primarily roger baker and you have had this discussion. i work with you and we believe we have the good mark on architecture and i haven't satisfied you. we will come back
secretary, quite honestly is the lack of an overall information technology architecture you and i have talked about this before, and it still doesn't exist today as far as i know. i've pointed that out and my committee has pointed that out and outside they've looked at the va's i.t. department and have pointed that out. i'm just not convinced that five years from now given that i don't know where you will be, but my fear is that we are going to be sitting here talking about the same issue again...
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, certainly science and technology draws more federal support but without the humanities there is just absolutely extraordinary work being done in the humanities which informs our intellectual culture and it's so pervasive i think it's just not as -- it doesn't produce the technologies as you said. >> do the panelists think that the humanities are getting the short end of the stick or are they just jealous of the new building for the engineering college? >> there's no question they feel downtrodden but in reality if you look at the fundamental purpose of the university education although we have this location focus right now it's sometimes said the purpose of a college education is said to prepare a student for their first job but for their last job, and that requires a very broad education involving the arts and humanities and social sciences to give an individual the capacity to continue to learn, to adapt to change. we believe right now looking at our students they are going to change not simply jobs that entire careers. they will be much longer than ours where and therefore they ne
, certainly science and technology draws more federal support but without the humanities there is just absolutely extraordinary work being done in the humanities which informs our intellectual culture and it's so pervasive i think it's just not as -- it doesn't produce the technologies as you said. >> do the panelists think that the humanities are getting the short end of the stick or are they just jealous of the new building for the engineering college? >> there's no question they...
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iron dome system is american technology that is made that possible. the united kingdom isn't involved in data, and i don't see any need for the united kingdom to become involved in that. israel and the united states have worked on that successfully together. >> it's now clear our from being homemade rockets that are being sent to gaza these are serious missiles that are supplied bahrain. what action is my friend taking internationally to stop the resupply from iran or anyone else to gaza so israel can feel less threatened? >> yes. my friend is right or it's clear particularly in the case of longer range rockets. these are coming from elsewhere. i mentioned earlier on involvement of iran. of course, we encourage all countries that maybe transit route for such weapons. iranian weapons will be going into syria, whether they'll be going into gaza or lebanon we encourage all countries that may be transit routes to live up to their international responsibilities and to stop the transfer of such weapons. we will intensify those efforts. >> does the foreign s
iron dome system is american technology that is made that possible. the united kingdom isn't involved in data, and i don't see any need for the united kingdom to become involved in that. israel and the united states have worked on that successfully together. >> it's now clear our from being homemade rockets that are being sent to gaza these are serious missiles that are supplied bahrain. what action is my friend taking internationally to stop the resupply from iran or anyone else to gaza...
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the technological flow goes in a much faster site. so in the past 10 years for short, i think it is reinforced american powers because i see the that what president bush was doing in his second term, with president obama has doubled down on a triple down on in his first term, what you see as an explication of these technologies to try to replace traditional, on the ground wars of attrition we have traditionally been in. so drugs are a great example as you mentioned, gideon. there were 48 or 49 thrown attacks in pakistan during the entire bush administration. by the time president obama is rehydrated on january 20th, there's probably about 300 in his first term. cipro is an example of something the united states was worried about defensively, but was only beginning to go ostensibly at the very end of the bush administration. olympic games, program against iran was something that managed to expand considerably until someone made a programming error and got out to the world. special forces is something we've been lying on far more now as
the technological flow goes in a much faster site. so in the past 10 years for short, i think it is reinforced american powers because i see the that what president bush was doing in his second term, with president obama has doubled down on a triple down on in his first term, what you see as an explication of these technologies to try to replace traditional, on the ground wars of attrition we have traditionally been in. so drugs are a great example as you mentioned, gideon. there were 48 or 49...
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necessarily technologically savvy. all the floors in the state department are in is going to be a cultural thing that works its way through training and education and confidence is judith said, having the backing of leadership to do these things and push the debate and occasionally overstep, but that will be how we eventually use technology to advance public diplomacy. >> we definitely need to get to questions, but before we do, i would be remiss to we didn't bring it tbg in the broader context of congressional funding and controversies. it's related to this topic because when we open up our facebook walls and embassy pages as they think the consensus here so far has been that we should have one of the things they should do is invite commentary that is critical of the united states and all of a sudden we have a member singing why do we pay taxpayer money to have other source of problems for the state department, but they surely do our work to be just trying to do runs into problems because criticism of so what do you s
necessarily technologically savvy. all the floors in the state department are in is going to be a cultural thing that works its way through training and education and confidence is judith said, having the backing of leadership to do these things and push the debate and occasionally overstep, but that will be how we eventually use technology to advance public diplomacy. >> we definitely need to get to questions, but before we do, i would be remiss to we didn't bring it tbg in the broader...
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the technology included the so-called system, which was the republican get out the vote technology to ensure we targeted people to get to the polls. that imploded. i'm told on election day, actually, so many hits from around the country as it should have saying, gee, this person voted, this person didn't, target calls, thought it was under attack, and closed down. for those of you here from, again, the technology field with the politics, we, republicans, want to talk to you. [laughter] we need help. the democrat system is calledded gordon, it was effective at microtargetting, and i heard a lot of antedotes, and you'll love somebody gets a call who is a democrat in law school, and it was gee, you know, we see that you have voted, this information is public available. we see you voted at two o'clock on election day, but your sister, at two lane, has not voted, could you call her? that's the level at which they were dealing, whereas, you know, we were flying blind at that point. part of it is technology, and part of a turnout that was impressive on their side that in the end made the dif
the technology included the so-called system, which was the republican get out the vote technology to ensure we targeted people to get to the polls. that imploded. i'm told on election day, actually, so many hits from around the country as it should have saying, gee, this person voted, this person didn't, target calls, thought it was under attack, and closed down. for those of you here from, again, the technology field with the politics, we, republicans, want to talk to you. [laughter] we need...
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this undergirded american military strategy of using weapons and technology to thoroughly pummel the enemy before a single american soldier was sent into battle. the war also exposed the fact that japan, which adopted some of the capitalistic production methods seen in america, lacked the essential pillars of exceptionalism to employ them fully in wartime. without free speech, free markets, constitutional protections that allowed great inventers and businessmen to try new ideas and fail without punishment, japan fell behind the u.s. almost instabilitily. in four years of war, the u.s. produced 17 fleet carriers. japan, one. we go into, for example, um, two guys viewed as failures or at least not very successful guys, and that would be ann true jackson -- andrew jackson higgins who produced an incredible number of craft, landing craft, but after the war was kind of harassed out of business. but especially we look at people like howard hughes. how'd houston was this giant -- howard hughes was this giant failure in world war ii. he produces these wooden reconnaissance airplanes very fas
this undergirded american military strategy of using weapons and technology to thoroughly pummel the enemy before a single american soldier was sent into battle. the war also exposed the fact that japan, which adopted some of the capitalistic production methods seen in america, lacked the essential pillars of exceptionalism to employ them fully in wartime. without free speech, free markets, constitutional protections that allowed great inventers and businessmen to try new ideas and fail without...
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the shield's family that owned millvinia but there would be no way to know for sure. 20 first century technology is what helped unravel -- ten years ago i wouldn't have been able to write this book in the way that it is now. >> any more questions? we have a little time left. i just wanted to say something about the book that made me think, but here in texas, looking at its history, particularly the history of slavery and how texas developed, i didn't know but someone shared with me that there was an incentive to have slaves here in texas among regular people because as the land was given away the mexican government giving of land away was based on how many people were in your group. if you could bring slaves, then you would get more land, regular people brought slaves, especially in texas, lots of working-class people came with slaves in order to enhance, are an interesting test about texas itself. regular people and slavery. we have a little more time. if anyone would like to ask a question. okay. would you please move to the mike. >> when i looked at the first lady's great granddad in the new
the shield's family that owned millvinia but there would be no way to know for sure. 20 first century technology is what helped unravel -- ten years ago i wouldn't have been able to write this book in the way that it is now. >> any more questions? we have a little time left. i just wanted to say something about the book that made me think, but here in texas, looking at its history, particularly the history of slavery and how texas developed, i didn't know but someone shared with me that...
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to follow on that and the technology piece you said earlier, it's interesting, we can be enamored with the potential of drones with the ability to do this, but both talking about the -- can we push too far the ability of technology when we consider 15 years of hunting osama bin laden, is that possible with drones and small groups of people in the cia floating around the world, but how much of this is getting inside that information loop is comment on the massive -- is dependent on the massive amount of resources on the ground to do that? you're talking about passing notes and couriers. they're not going to find e-mails, and the critical information we fed into the computer was fed not by passive or active computing, but by actual hands. so tying into that, how possible is it to combat terrorism or to combat any kind of threat if it's not fixed on a map and in a large army if we don't have via partners or allies, if we don't have human beings on the ground to get inside that information loop or to exploit it, then what's the point? >> yeah. well, i mean, i think that you're clearly righ
to follow on that and the technology piece you said earlier, it's interesting, we can be enamored with the potential of drones with the ability to do this, but both talking about the -- can we push too far the ability of technology when we consider 15 years of hunting osama bin laden, is that possible with drones and small groups of people in the cia floating around the world, but how much of this is getting inside that information loop is comment on the massive -- is dependent on the massive...
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is where technology can be really an important and powerful vehicle. i think initially we had to vent -- said several minutes of these people and we have data at about 50,000. i think they've done a lot, put up huge effort trying to improve that. >> we are at a time in the administration, the second term of the administration were question of legacy often comes into play. people start talking about what will this administration be remembered for. so i kind of wonder what you, if you have the opportunity, which he did when you're were in office, at least two of the dead and maybe the others had the opportunity, if this president and the secretary of state, a 20 minute conversation about public diplomacy and what could be done that was particularly useful to leave something behind for years from now, what would be, what kind of things would you bring up? just to give you time to think about, let me remind, the bush administration under secretary glassman together with microsoft and a bunch of other people put together a conference of dissidents from arou
is where technology can be really an important and powerful vehicle. i think initially we had to vent -- said several minutes of these people and we have data at about 50,000. i think they've done a lot, put up huge effort trying to improve that. >> we are at a time in the administration, the second term of the administration were question of legacy often comes into play. people start talking about what will this administration be remembered for. so i kind of wonder what you, if you have...
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is a releasing them from jail and giving them space and controlling them technologically? >> i can start with the last. if you think the light footprint strategy is all about containment, then it does raise the question of what are the limits? what have we discovered it doesn't do terribly well? it is a build justice systems. it doesn't do global development paula was discussing before. it deliberately pulls the united states back from that kind of deep engagement that we thought in the post-cold war world we were heading into. and frankly, you might've thought we were heading into just listening to president obama during the 2008 campaign, where he talked mostly about engagement strategies. you didn't hear discussion of what we've all been talking about here today. i think the fact we have seen the american pullback here is a combination of war weariness, economic troubles in the united states, economic troubles in europe but is that the europeans have not stepped up to the degree that i think many in the united states hoped it would. and i think her recognition, abolitio
is a releasing them from jail and giving them space and controlling them technologically? >> i can start with the last. if you think the light footprint strategy is all about containment, then it does raise the question of what are the limits? what have we discovered it doesn't do terribly well? it is a build justice systems. it doesn't do global development paula was discussing before. it deliberately pulls the united states back from that kind of deep engagement that we thought in the...
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we should the development of new and high technology weapon and equipment. and -- a high caliber personnel in large numbers and we should increase efforts to run the armed forces with the strict [inaudible] and in other nonders with the law to the new level. we should allocate reform of the national defense and armed forces in both active and priewbt way in the military transmore make. we should -- [inaudible] for the innovation in defense -- and. and continue to follow the chinese-style that integrated development of military and civilian sector. we should speed up the butte -- [inaudible] and we should consolidate [inaudible] and the government and military and the civil yap -- civil yabs. national defense policy that different in the nature. [applause] enriching the practice of one country, two system and inconvenient, chinese reunification. since the return to mother land, they embarked a broad road in which they and the mainland descraw on each other and pursue common development with the success of the one country two country principal. the underlying
we should the development of new and high technology weapon and equipment. and -- a high caliber personnel in large numbers and we should increase efforts to run the armed forces with the strict [inaudible] and in other nonders with the law to the new level. we should allocate reform of the national defense and armed forces in both active and priewbt way in the military transmore make. we should -- [inaudible] for the innovation in defense -- and. and continue to follow the chinese-style that...
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since the 80s, we had the technology to run water through our engines. stanley meyer perfected that in the 80ing. i don't know what happened to that. he had patents on it and provedf his information, even most of the technology on it, and, also, we have the processer by paul and the seg generator that was developedded by a man from europe. he's still alive. his name is john thill. >> host: we'll let you go, back to the topic of cybercrime here with the guest shawn henry, formally from the fbi. hearing from arnie now. >> caller: we're riflely concerned about identity theft, and especially as it occurs over the internet. there are -- my basic question is do any of these products that we see advertised on television and/or talk radio -- there's one prominent one starting with the letter l, and my wife knows about it. she wants me to sign up for $160 a year that will protect us from identity theft over the computer. are any of these products effective? >> guest: so it sounds like what you're talking about, one of the services that identifies when your privat
since the 80s, we had the technology to run water through our engines. stanley meyer perfected that in the 80ing. i don't know what happened to that. he had patents on it and provedf his information, even most of the technology on it, and, also, we have the processer by paul and the seg generator that was developedded by a man from europe. he's still alive. his name is john thill. >> host: we'll let you go, back to the topic of cybercrime here with the guest shawn henry, formally from the...
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increasing risks from carbon emissions, pricing the carbon is an absolutely to the behavioral change and the technological innovation that we will need in order to ultimately adjust and adapt to what we have already done. the carbon tax also raises revenue in a way that could be used for a variety of different forms but it has an additional kind of benefit associated with. the narrow political discussion that we are having today. >> we see the gasoline prices coming down because the price of oil starts to fall because of all the activity produced in this country may be that would be an opportunity to increase the federal gasoline tax if we don't go to a full carbon tax. with 50 cents a gallon of the federal tax. some of the problem is from a climate perspective transportation and gasoline price petroleum is a small share of the problem. the problem is in the energy sector and without the carbon tax you are not directly getting at that. >> so, i think for the reasons that have been described the carbon tax makes enormous sense to deal with the environmental impact of energy use to like and you can design o
increasing risks from carbon emissions, pricing the carbon is an absolutely to the behavioral change and the technological innovation that we will need in order to ultimately adjust and adapt to what we have already done. the carbon tax also raises revenue in a way that could be used for a variety of different forms but it has an additional kind of benefit associated with. the narrow political discussion that we are having today. >> we see the gasoline prices coming down because the price...
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we were able to test new technology, underwater vehicles and neutralizing mines and we brought an international coalition together. we hoped to get about 20 countries here with 35 countries to take part in this exercise. 20 of them brought ships or helicopters or the means. we had a staging base that we used before if you will the flagship, the command ship for the coalition operations and so, we learned a great deal. we learned that there is a lot of synergy that we can bring together and we knew that unmanned underwater vehicles to work on the countermining and that you don't need a countermeasure ships and a large helicopter dragging this led to clear these things out to be effective but in fact smaller ships that some nations with smaller navies bring to bear on this and become very, very effective participants in the mission. >> we are almost out of time but before we get to the last question i have a couple of housekeeping matters to take care of. first of all i would like to remind you about our upcoming lunch speakers on december 18th. leon panetta the secretary of the u.s. to put the d
we were able to test new technology, underwater vehicles and neutralizing mines and we brought an international coalition together. we hoped to get about 20 countries here with 35 countries to take part in this exercise. 20 of them brought ships or helicopters or the means. we had a staging base that we used before if you will the flagship, the command ship for the coalition operations and so, we learned a great deal. we learned that there is a lot of synergy that we can bring together and we...
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for this marker, electric vehicles, biofuels, clean energy research and the technologies of tomorrow and factories to build the stuff in the united states. not just energy, but the stimulus is going to drag our antiquated health care system into the digital era so that your doctor might not kill you at this chicken scratch handwriting by 2015 just about every american will have an electronic medical record, which really should improve care and reduce costs and is really a down payment on health care reform. this included the most ambitious education reform in decades with race to the top of the largest infrastructure investment since eisenhower. it had the largest research investment other, the largest middle-class tax cut since reagan went to more than 95% of the country in less than 10% of the country noticed it. with great politics. so again my book i did try to get deep into the bowels of the white house in the backroom of capitol hill, but also tried to be a fly on the wall and the energy energy departments weatherization division. it's actually known as the turkey farm. i went
for this marker, electric vehicles, biofuels, clean energy research and the technologies of tomorrow and factories to build the stuff in the united states. not just energy, but the stimulus is going to drag our antiquated health care system into the digital era so that your doctor might not kill you at this chicken scratch handwriting by 2015 just about every american will have an electronic medical record, which really should improve care and reduce costs and is really a down payment on health...